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TIL Samsung invented a truck with a screen on the rear, that showed following drivers what the road ahead looks like, for safer overtaking.

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PY1re TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer's tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas 'didn't want her looking too aggressively feminine'. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: 'No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire'.
wMgP TIL: Having a child can have a pretty strong negative impact on a person’s happiness. On average, the effect of a new baby on a person’s life in the first year is worse than divorce, worse than unemployment and worse even than the death of a partner.
X07MX TIL a startup called "Novamin" marketed a bioglass for toothpaste that can repair damaged enamel; GlaxoSmithKline bought the company in 2010, pulled it from every US toothpaste brand, and now sells it exclusively overseas as Sensodyne Repair and Protect which in the US instead includes fluoride.
YXdZ TIL in 2013 there’s going to be a comet so bright that it may be visible during daylight hours.
mxRbv TIL that you likely have thousands of mites living on your face right now. The males crawl out of your pores at night to find a female and have sex on your face.